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Chichibu-Tama-Kai NP, Yamanashi
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No landscape architect arranged these boulders: Yume-no-Teien is a natural rock garden, where huge granite and low rhododendron and shirabe fir form an open island amid deep forest.
The name means “Garden of Dreams,” and it was inspired by the view: a 2006 Yamanashi City newsletter says the scenery from the rocks looked dreamlike. This garden is nature’s handiwork, not a formal planted garden.
In early to mid-July, Hakusan-shakunage blooms among the rocks and in clusters along the approach. The flower show begins before you even reach the granite lookout.
From the open granite lookout, hikers have picked out Kinpu-san’s distinctive Gojō-iwa rock and the Southern Alps—a sweeping mountain panorama beyond the garden’s own boulders.
